Sewing orginal one-offs are fun. But just as often it's the perfect basics that elude me when I go shopping. The replacement of the perfect black skirt, for example. This summer I saw a gorgeous wool skirt in Hobbs that didn't seem to come in my size and was quite expensive to. The shape was so simple I orderede 3,5 yds tropical wool crepe from Fabric.com and tried my own version of a halv-circle skirt with a wide, smoothing waistband, steadied with interfacing and lined with heavy acetate.I love the way it falls from the hips, how the waistband smooths my tummy and gives me a resemblance of a waist.I also love that I spent NOK 400 instead of NOK 1200 on the entire skirt --and that I tried the original skirt in London last week, only to realise that I prefer my own both in looks and feel.

I also had enough fabric for one more skirt; while the half-circle skirt is this seasaon's lovely midilength, it's good to have an shorter one to flash the lovely legs with. This is a repeat of Anna Maria Horner's Study Hall Skirt, and while I should have ironed it before taking the picture, and the facing needs another seam to stay in place, I am quite pleased with this to.

As well as the math: 2 skirts for NOK 550 instead of one skirt at NOK 1200 = Money saved.